How does the local economy fair against Western countries? Is it on par?
Copyright infringement in China is awesome! It allows one to buy things at a fraction of the cost because of such competition. A lot of western brands’ factories sell the product locally unbranded for 1/10 of the price and it’s awesome
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
ComradeMiao@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
What’re you asking? This practice greatly benefits locals if you ask me :)
catloaf@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Sure, at the cost of the people doing the work to design the product not being compensated for their labor.
Electricblush@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yes, because that is where all the profit goes in Western companies, and not the CEO, upper management and stockholders…
You are not wrong in assuming that exploited labor is being under compensated, but different models of labor exploitation aside, people actually making value are not the people reaping the benefits.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
The ones designing the vast majority of IP are paid in wages, the ones who own the IP have not actually designed it, or played a minimal role, ie outlining what they want designed. Copyright is something that is truly unnecessary in general, it is at its best when protecting the vast minority of small producers who own their own designs and can actually afford to manufacture and sell them, but the bulk of the economy is not at all organized in such a fashion to begin with.
MITM0@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s actually better, NGL
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
[deleted]ComradeMiao@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
You’re claiming that Chinese people cannot design anything new because they built a replica city? Way to admit you know nothing about anything China does and show your ignorant racism.
ComradeMiao@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Didn’t realize I’m arguing with a racist 18 year old lmao. Bye!
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Copyright infringement also means small creators get their lunch money stolen by big Chinese corporations. Copyright doesn’t just protect corpos.
ComradeMiao@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Yeah the individuals deserve to be protected but I have no care for corpos losing to other corpos